Photography, Nature, Birds, the Environment, and . . .
Posted in Birds, Nature Photography, Wings on Wednesday on Sep 1st, 2010
Buntings (5 images in album) (click image to view album) There are five species of Cardinaline buntings* that occur in North America, two of which are found only along the Mexican Border – Varied Bunting and Blue Bunting. Of the three that are regular breeders within the lower 48 states, featured here are two, Indigo [...]
Posted in Birds, Nature Photography, Wings on Wednesday on Aug 25th, 2010
Woodpeckers (6 images in album) (click image to view album) This week’s edition of Wings showcases 6 species of woodpeckers from my collection of avian images. We begin with a female Downy Woodpecker feeding a nestling, and end with a Pileated Woodpecker doing the same. In between are a male Red-bellied Woodpecker, Arizona Woodpecker (the [...]
Posted in Birds, Nature Photography, Wings on Wednesday on Aug 18th, 2010
Bald Eagles (6 images in album) (click image to view album) This week I offer up a collection of 6 images from my trips to Homer, Alaska in 2005 and 2006 to photograph Bald Eagles. Those were good times. There are a lot of superlatives I could use to describe Bald Eagles: amazing, majestic, beautiful, [...]
Posted in Birds, Nature Photography, Wings on Wednesday on Aug 11th, 2010
Black-chinned Hummingbird (6 images in album) (click image to view album) Last week’s Wings post featured hummingbirds and last week, on the same days I was photographing the Utah Prairie Dogs featured in Monday’s mammals post, I also spent some time sitting by my hummingbird feeders. I figure you can never see too many hummingbirds, [...]
Posted in Birds, Nature Photography, Wings on Wednesday on Aug 4th, 2010
Hummingbirds (click image to view album) Among the most challenging to photograph, for this week’s post I’ve chosen 5 species of hummingbirds. The images are from Texas, Florida, Arizona, and here at Bryce Canyon.
Posted in Birds, Nature Photography, Wings on Wednesday on Jul 28th, 2010
Long-legged Waders (click image to view album) Even before I started getting in to bird photography I knew of the reputation of the Saint Augustine Alligator Farm as a place to photograph herons and egrets in beautiful breeding plumage, along with their babies once they hatched, at very close range. Of course, these days I’m [...]
Posted in Birds, Nature Photography, Wings on Wednesday on Jul 21st, 2010
Calidris Sandpipers (click image to view album) Ever since I started photographing and watching birds, sandpipers have always been one of my favorite groups. The smallest members of the sandpiper family, the Calidris sandpipers range in size from the Red Knot, largest at an average 10.5″/26.67 cm in length, down to the Least Sandpiper at [...]
Posted in Birds, Nature Photography, Wings on Wednesday on Jul 7th, 2010
Least Terns (click image to view album) For this week’s edition of “Wings” (yes, I know “One Good Tern . . . ” is a corny title, but I couldn’t resist) I decided to go with some Least Tern (Sterna antillarum) photos – if I were still in Florida I might have been looking for [...]
Posted in Birds, Nature Photography, Wings on Wednesday on Jun 30th, 2010
Florida Sandhill Cranes (click image to view album) A tip from a friend a few weeks ago allowed me to salvage a removable hard drive that contained quite a few images that, though most of the files on it had been backed up, unfortunately there were a number of them that I discovered were not. [...]
Posted in Birds, Wildlife Video, Wings on Wednesday on Jun 3rd, 2010
For this week’s “Wings” post, a short video (~1 min. 40 sec.) of some of the visitors I see on a pretty regular basis at the bird bath. I’ve seen more Red Crossbills that appear here at times, but it will give you an idea. Also stopping by in this clip are a couple of [...]
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities… still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
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